I'm aware that most people in discussing the priesthood ban dismiss Zebedee Coltrin's statements that he asked Joseph Smith about blacks and the priesthood, and that he declared after obtaining revelation that blacks should not have the priesthood (the context was President John Taylor asking him about this, since Coltrin was one of the seven presidents of the quorum of the seventy when Elijah Abel was dropped from the 2nd quorum because of his race). They also dismiss Abraham O. Smoot's testimo